100,000 demostrate in Buenos Aries

soggy oggie | 03.04.2002 20:45

For more than five years, and in the face of massive unemployment, now pushing 30% nationally, there has developed an outstanding unemployed workers’ movement — the piqueteros — who have asserted their right to work through massive road blockades.

The piqueteros are organised locally with a general assembly in which all active members participate. Once a road
artery is designated, the assembly organises support within the barrio. Hundreds of women, men, and children participate in the blockade, setting up tents and soup kitchens at the side of the road. If the police threaten the protests, hundreds more pour in from other barrios close by.

If the government decides to negotiate, the movement demands that the meetings take place with all the piqueteros at the blockade. The collective assembly makes decisions at the site of the action.

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soggy oggie
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Let's talk!

04.04.2002 00:48

Let's talk - your first weblimk lead to a really interesting article - a good analysis but, in my opinion, with some Lenninist distortions -

however you set your article on a newswire onto which it's not possible to add comments / points of view etc.,- I

If your serious about taliking with the wider activist community and not just riding on the back of issues - let's talk - solidaritity is strenght -
One Love

multitudes

yes you can post comments there

10.04.2002 21:27

hello

you can post comments on the website where the article is, at the bottom there is "comments?", click on that and then add what comments you want, it don't get censored!

one love back at yer
matt

matt
Homepage: http://www.nosweat.org.uk

yes, but correction in the details

10.04.2002 21:31

i should have said, click on the button "Post comment"..., at the bottom of the article,
it's as easy as that.